I recently saw this WordPress theme... How does he do it?

Hi,

I recently saw this WordPress theme:

http://news.revolutiontheme.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Revolution+Tech

And I am wondering how does the author make those difference sections like "The Gadget Buzz" and "Latest Tech News".

Most blogs I have seen have take the traditional 2 or 3 column approach where the left column has a long summary list of the post and the other columns are for links, categories etc.

This theme is way different, are there any FREE or cheaper themes around that do this.

Thanks,

Gary

 

I think i downloaded one of those themes from somewhere sometime back for free i don't have the themes now but looks like he recently made it for sale.

 

it's just pulling X amount of articles from individual categories

 

This plugin may be of help.

 

Gary, the section you are referring to uses the WP custom fields function, something that is built into the theme - this is to display the image next to the post. Each of those sections is a category, and is being pulled in by a simple piece of code which pulls specific categories.

 

One custom field for the image and two WP_Query loops to query posts from specific categories. Very simple, you don't really need any plugin for these.

 

There are plenty of free newspaper/magazine themes out there.
http://www.epicwebstrategies.com/11-free-magazine-style-wordpress-themes/

Best of luck

 

Thanks everyone for your replies... They were very helpful.

Thanks for this info... I haven't much word press theme coding before (as I haven't had the need). Could you just give me a code snippet and I will go from there.

Thanks,

Gary

 

heres a start > http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/06/24/using-custom-fields-part-one-the-basics/